Actually, I have an easier time letting people do their own thing here. It's back home that I get controlling. The stakes are so much higher back home, it's hard to let go.
I don't want wolves to be visible. It's too dangerous. But I don't want us to have to make our way through life by working the black market and living on the streets, either. I see wolves in places of influence, like I live: attorneys and doctors, politicians and business owners. I see a world where we can coexist even if humans never know they're coexisting.
That's what drove us underground in the first place.
But there's no way to tell the difference if you aren't one. People don't trust us--well, healthy, well-adjusted people are instinctively afraid of us. Animals don't like us. But there's nothing that screams 'lycanthrope' about us.
You ever think about starting a commune? Just fucking off in a corner of the world where you won't be bothered, instead of trying to get into human society?
Because humans can be real shits when they're panicked.
That's how we survived all these years. Most wolves are happy to settle. I just never have been. Why should I have to give up the life I've built, when I can find a way to keep living it?
The risk is worth it to me. And so far it has been to my packmates. Not ever wolf wants in... there are plenty who want to stay on the edges of society, selling drugs and stealing from dumpsters. But I want to offer a path to a better life for those who want to risk it.
You need some human advocates. People who can be go-betweens for wolves and humans. Leads into society, who can vouch for you, or become your kind when they're ready for it.
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How do you tell your kind apart if they don't tell you themselves?
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But there's no way to tell the difference if you aren't one. People don't trust us--well, healthy, well-adjusted people are instinctively afraid of us. Animals don't like us. But there's nothing that screams 'lycanthrope' about us.
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Because humans can be real shits when they're panicked.
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You need some human advocates. People who can be go-betweens for wolves and humans. Leads into society, who can vouch for you, or become your kind when they're ready for it.
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